Chapter 4 Begonia Splashing

It is the sunny light is good, the flowers in the imperial garden are in full bloom, competing for beauty, it is really full of spring can not be closed, and a branch still wants to come out of the wall.

In the pavilion, a beautiful woman in a gorgeous dress smiled just like the gorgeous peony with a slightly trembling branch, a glance and a smile between the charms, it was really more beautiful than the boundless spring, the maid standing next to her was full of redness, shame, and thought in her heart No wonder the concubine has been favored for decades, such a posture and figure, she can't take her eyes off the same woman, don't say Your Majesty.

What's more, this lady has two highnesses, and the foreign family is a prominent hairpin nobleman for generations, in this palace, it is really like the sky, the position is better than the middle palace, and the limelight has to surpass the one in the Minghuang Palace.

"Qingqing, why are you so happy?" The emperor who had just come down from the early dynasty was dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, with a gold silk dragon and jade belt tied around his waist, and approached with a smile and hugged the beautiful woman who was reading the letter with her head bowed into her arms, and the slaves in the four places bowed their heads and avoided it, not daring to look at it again.

The woman who provoked her blushed slightly, and her beautiful eyes said with slight anger: "Your Majesty! As he spoke, he struggled out of the emperor's arms, straightened his clothes slightly, and said: "My brother's Da Lang has a new daughter, and my sister-in-law said that Yuxue is cute, very gratifying, I want to go and see it!" "

Her face is like a delicate flower, she will be thirty years old, looking at a girl who still looks like twenty-eight, talking about other people's daughters Jiao'e is full of envy, and the emperor laughed loudly: "Qingqing likes girls, why don't you and I have another one?" "

The startled beautiful woman blushed with shame, stared at her with wonderful eyes, and said angrily: "Your Majesty, what are you kidding, how old are the concubines, and the grandchildren of the elder brother's family have embraced them." "

"Why not?" The emperor is nearly middle-aged, very well maintained, his face is elegant, plump and handsome, and a pair of black eyes look at the person in his arms.

The concubine seemed to be burned by the burning eyes, and lowered her eyes and didn't dare to look at it again: "The concubine only looks at the envy to marry quickly, so that she can give birth to a little Jiaojiao to come to my palace to raise for some time, but the envy is like an elm pimple that does not open her mind, and a few days ago she gave him a look at the noble girl, but she didn't like any of them." Although Shubai made a marriage contract with Jiji, Jiji is only twelve after her birthday this year, and there are still waiting. "

The envy in the mouth of the concubine is Yan Shao, the fifth highness, who is twenty years old, and the crown ceremony takes the word envy, and he serves in the military department. Shubai is Yan Zhao, the Seventh Highness, although he has not been crowned, the words have been prepared, and the two sons are precocious, and they are serving outside, so it is not good to call them milk names.

Speaking of his son, the emperor laughed again: "The Jiangbei Canal has been completed, and Shubai said that he would be able to rush back at the end of April." "

"Jiangbei is far away, thousands of miles away from the capital, and it is now mid-March, how can he rush back at the end of April?" Although the concubine is glad that her son is coming back, it will take more than two months to hurry up and catch up, why is he in such a hurry? After thinking about it, he seemed to think of something, and suddenly smiled like a flower, and said to the handsome emperor: "Yes, on the birthday of May 16, Shubai is even more enlightened than envy. "

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After the spring sowing, the light rain villa was idle for a while, and the grandmother was not so busy, and there were several hours in Jiang Xi's yard every day, staring at her to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting with the master, and sometimes she would play a song with the master who taught the piano, take out the chessboard, and talk about a game with Jiang Xi.

Therefore, although Jiang Xi is miserable, but she is also making rapid progress, and she is talented and intelligent, she learns everything quickly, and sometimes her inadvertently revealed talent makes Mama and the master very surprised, and she is even more satisfied, this girl is what she watched grow up, her appearance and temperament are all good, and her ration is no better.

Mama was satisfied, but Jiang Xi complained bitterly, since the spring sowing, Mama made a list for her, and there was an arrangement for what to eat every day, saying that it was good for the woman's health, and she accompanied her to class.

In the past, Mama was not able to fish in troubled waters to hide lazily, but now it is not easy to do too much under Mama's nose, which makes the old man sad, she only feels that she is now being cultivated as a quasi-princess, and she has a deep grudge against His Royal Highness.

So much so that he scolded Yan Zhao in his sleep, and was listened to by the vigil Qianhe for a while, teasing her during the day, and talking about Mama.

"I still wonder why the girl didn't ask me about His Highness recently, and I thought that the girl was too old and ashamed, but it turned out that I dreamed of it, and I must repair the book to His Highness, so that he knows how you think about him!" Mama looked at her with a smile on her face at the moment, and the meaning in her eyes was very narrow.

The maids all looked at her with a smile on their faces, and Jiang Xi, who was provoked, blushed, ashamed, and secretly regretted that she had always chased after Her Royal Highness in the past.

"Mama~ I don't have it!" She was annoyed for a moment, and said coquettishly: "You are not allowed to laugh! "

Those maids held back their laughter, Jiang Xi was a little better, and seeing that Mama was in a good mood, she said softly to go out: "Mama, you see that Mama is eating obediently these days and attending classes well, can you go out, I heard the tenants say that there will be a market in the town in the middle of the month, and every household will take out good things to sell on the street, I want to go and see, maybe there will be new things that I haven't seen." "

"How can there be good things in the farmhouse, just buy you whatever you want, the market is full of people, and it will not be good if you are hit." Mama stroked the hairpin of the begonia between her temples and refused.

It's not that she doesn't want Jiang Xi to go out, it's really that there is nothing on the table in the market in this township, there are many thieves to shoot flowers, and people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, in case something happens, she can't explain it, seeing the little girl frowning and crying, she can't bear to say: "Little ancestor, don't cry, Mama is distressed." "

At this point, Jiang Xi was a ghost again, so she knew that Mama didn't plan to let her go out, so she squeezed out two tears. She is good-looking, and her tears are like delicate flowers beaten by the rain, wilting and hanging her head.

Mama was very distressed when she saw her like this, and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay!" Mama will allow you to go, okay? Don't be sad, my little ancestor! "

Seeing that the goal was achieved, Jiang Xi broke into tears and said coquettishly: "I know that Mama loves me the most!" He smiled sweetly at Mama.

Since Mama agreed to let her go to the market, she gave her three chapters of the Dharma, and she was to return before evening, and she took her maidservant with her, and rode in a carriage with a hat. Jiang Ji agreed verbally, distressed in her heart.

Rushing to the market is the peasants to buy daily necessities, or sell some special products to make some money, go to the villagers are the villagers, she will inevitably travel like this, the momentum is immense, eye-catching, although safe, but can not be fun, if others see her afraid of restraint that is not fun at all.

Although she was distressed, if she could go out, Jiang Xi would have nothing else to ask for.

On the fifteenth day, he got into the carriage and said goodbye to his grandmother and went out happily, the market was near the villa, not far but it would take an hour to arrive.

The weather was also very good, the wildflowers on the roadside were blooming, the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant, and she also brought the jade slave with her, and at the moment she followed the carriage, and she could see it when she opened the curtain, and the horses were very happy to come out, snorting and neighing. The long entourage sent by His Royal Highness followed the car on horseback, and they were silent one by one, and Jiang Xi was really too lazy to look at it.

When the carriage arrived near the market, Jiang Xi stopped, only took the lotus, and let the other maids stay by the carriage, and did not allow those long attendants to follow, because she was the master, although those long attendants felt that it was inappropriate, they should go down after seeing the market and not pooping.

Getting rid of the hordes of servants, Jiang Xi exhaled with relief, and took Qihe's hand and drowned in the sea of people with interest.

The market is very lively, the sellers of rice, tea, and snacks are shouting and drinking in the east side of the market, and the stalls selling farm tools and ironware are in the north side, which are divided into categories, well organized, leaving a narrow passage, and the people who visit the market are shoulder to shoulder, raising their sleeves like clouds.

There are many women who take children to the market, Jiang Xi has seen a lot of new things that have never been seen, there are women who sell silk flowers with ropes, although the objects are not valuable, but the craftsmanship is the best one, even Jiang Xi, who is used to seeing good things, can't help but stop sideways, there are a lot of young girls gathered in front of the stall, choose the silk flowers they like, pay the money and can't wait to wear it on their heads, and ask the female companion if she is beautiful.

Jiang Xi took a fancy to a red begonia silk flower, the petals were slightly blowing in the wind, and the sun was shining with golden light, which was very beautiful. That silk flower obviously has a lot of girls paying attention, and from time to time they turn their heads to look at it, and even the girls who paid the money and wanted to leave are reluctant to turn back. Jiang Xi also knew that this one should be expensive, and although these peasant girls liked it, they couldn't afford it.

Then he pulled the lotus forward and asked the woman who sold silk flowers how much, the woman smiled shyly and said embarrassedly: "The flannel cloth used for this silk flower is rare, it is a corner of the rag that I have to do in the house outside the staff, and the color is gorgeous and I want to make silk flowers, but it happens that my man got a gold leaf the size of a fingernail, and he grinded it to make powder, which is golden under the sun, if the lady likes it, I will charge you a penny of silver, you see it?" "

Afraid that this beautiful woman would refuse, she asked cautiously and added at the end: "If the lady likes it, it can be sold for half a penny." "After all, although the silk flowers are beautiful, if they can't be sold, they will become useless, not to mention the gold leaf powder sprinkled on them.

Listening to the offer, many girls opened their mouths in surprise, this silk flower was so beautiful that they didn't dare to ask even if they liked it.

Jiang Ji also really liked it and said, "No need, then I'll buy it for a penny." After that, he motioned to pay for it, and asked him to pick what he liked, and by the way, he brought one to the maids waiting by the carriage, and he also liked these silk flowers very much, and carefully selected.

The woman saw that there was a big business, and she was hospitalized, and the lotus was there to pick it, and Jiang Xi put the silk hairpin in the sideburns, she was already a gorgeous appearance, and the red and gorgeous lining of this begonia was more delicate than the flower. The girls next to her all looked at her enviously, those eyes were kind and simple, and Jiang Xi smiled back.

Maybe they were too high-profile and attracted a lot of scrutiny, Jiang Xi didn't want to be seen as a monkey, so she put on a hat and saw that Qianhe was slow and impatiently urging: "Sister Qianhe, hurry up." "

She picked really seriously, and when she heard Jiang Xi's urging and hurriedly responded, Jiang Xi felt that she still had to pick for a while, so she said: "Sister Qianhe, you pick slowly, I'll take a look elsewhere." "

She didn't seem to hear it, so she didn't pay attention to it, thinking about taking a look around here and coming back in a while.

Jiang Ji looked around with her skirt, and suddenly someone strangled her neck and covered her mouth from behind and dragged away, she was frightened!

In broad daylight, it was bright and clear, but someone robbed people on the street? Jiang Xi was frightened, struggling desperately, the begonia silk flower on her head fell to the ground, and people came and went on the street, seeing this situation, she hurriedly shouted: "Shoot the flowers!" Shoot the flowers and rob people! "

The man behind him was holding a long knife, and the people who saw it did not dare to act rashly, for fear of hurting the girl, so they could only watch as the gangsters dragged a young woman into a carriage.